Re: Cataloguing & Converting Bluecurve Icons

To: "Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including icons, themes, and wallpapers." <fedora-art-list redhat com>

Subject: Re: Cataloguing & Converting Bluecurve Icons

Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:51:26 -0400

Nicu Buculei wrote:

I don't have access to Illustrator, so if someone else can convert the
.ai files to SVG i can help cleaning the results, breaking the icons in
individual files etc.

I can start converting them to SVG. The reason I haven't thus far - if you
convert a whole ai sheet to SVG, it croaks when you try to open it in Inkscape -
I don't think through any fault of Inkscape, I think just because Illustrator
isn't real swift at exporting SVG. Sigh. I'm probably going to have to break the
sheets into chunks to get this to work - If anybody else has Illustrator and is
willing to help let me know and we can divy them up.

Not only that, it should also support our specific file types.

A gallery would be awesome, for a large number of icons search
functionality will become important. Also we may want some kind of
feedback (comments).

Unfortunately, the choice is very restricted: people in charge of the
website infrastructure have a policy - no php is allowed, python is the
preferred language, so the large majority of gallery software is out of
reach.

Yeh..... these limitations really suck. :-/

At the Open Clip Art Library we have the plan of using CreativeCommon's
ccHost (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost), but we have to add SVG
support before it can be used for the job. I think such a tool would be
useful for Fedora Art, if not for icons at least for wallpapers.